Re: how to use redboot in vmware

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-10-12, abhishek srivastava <just_abhi22@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi i had successfully build redboot package for i386 PC (vmware)
> hardware, for startup type as "grub". i do not have floppy drive i my
> laptop and could not ue RAM as redboot is still to be installed.
>
> now in redboot_install/bin i got redboot.elf. what to do with that.
> how could i use it to see redboot prompt on vmware (ubuntu installed).
>
> please give some clear and detailed explanation.

Here's how I do it using Qemu:

 http://www.panix.com/~grante/eCos-on-QEMU.html

You should be able to extrapolate from that to using vmware.

Here's another document on using Qemu that boots from a floppy image
instead (I chose CDROM because some of my apps won't fit on a floppy):

 http://www.codeconfidence.com/technote-0002.shtml

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